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Fri 30 Aug, 2013 08:23 pm
The bleak rawness of a grey December day held sway over St. James’s Park, that sanctuary of lawn and tree and pool, into which the bourgeois innovator has rushed ambitiously time and again, to find that he must take the patent leather from off his feet, for the ground on which he stands is hallowed ground.
I don't quite understand the bold part. Why "bourgeois innovator"? why not in plural form? what is this sentence trying to say?
@lizfeehily,
"Bourgeois " suggests insensitivity. Ignorant of the context Liz I'd guess the shoe somehow demeans this environment while the innovator might rush in where others pause
Singular is often the preferred form, flows more smoothly
bourgeois
means middle class. This means that he's a regular guy.
@PUNKEY,
Punk, not necessarily. The term suggests materialistic and philistine
http://thesaurus.com/browse/bourgeois
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote: bourgeois means middle class. This means that he's a regular guy.
In this context it means he's a nouveau-riche tasteless prick, actually. (Does total ignorance ever inhibit you from posting in a topic?)
Contrex wrote: (Does total ignorance ever inhibit you from posting in a topic?)
No, self-restraint and ponderation are not her fortes..
(bʊr-zhwä', bʊr'zhwä') pronunciation
n., pl., bourgeois.
A person belonging to the middle class.
A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.
adj.
Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.
@contrex,
Quote:(Does total ignorance ever inhibit you from posting in a topic?)
It hasn't stopped you many a time, C.
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